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Structural Features of the Vesicle of Frankia Sp. Cpi1 in Culture Structural features of the vesicle of Frankia sp. CpIl in culture JOHNG. TORREYAND DALECALLAHAM Cabot Foundation, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, U.S.A.01366 and Department of Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.01003 Accepted March 16, 1982 TORREY,J. G., and D. CALLAHAM.1982. Structural features of the vesicle of Frankia sp. CpII inculture. Can. J. Microbiol. 28: 749-757. The filamentous bacterium Frankia sp. CpIl of the Actinomycetales, responsible for symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the nodules of certain woody dicots, also fixes dinitrogen when grown independently of the host in a nitrogen-free synthetic nutrient medium under aerobic conditions. In structural studies of Frankla grown in culture it has been shown that the bacterial filaments form vesicles, enlarged terminal endings in which the enzyme nitrogenase is formed. Microscopic examination of cultures shows that the vesicles possess a specialized envelope consisting of a number of thin layers or laminae which In polarized light show birefringence and in freeze-etch electron microscopy are resolved as multiple (12-15) laminae approximately 35-40 A (1 A = 0.1 nm) in thickness. Comparisons are made between the structure of the veslcle envelope in cultured Frankia and the ; strikingly similar innermost laminated layer in the dinitrogen-fixing heterocysts of the cyanobacterium Anabaena. Comparable protective functions in limiting oxygen to the dinitrogen-fixing sites are suggested for these similar structures in two quite unrelated microorganisms. 1 TORREY,J. G., et D. CALLAHAM.1982. Structural features of the vesicle of Frankia sp. CpIl in culture. Can. J. Microbiol. 28: 749-757. I La bactkrie filamenteuse Frankia sp. CpII du groupe ActinomycCtales, responsable de la fixation symbiotique de l'azote dans les nodules de certaines dicotylCdones ligneuses, fixe Cgalement l'azote libre lorsqu'elle croit indkpendament de l'hdte sur un milieu nutritif synthCtique dCpouwu d'azote en condition aCrobique. Dans des Ctudes structurales de Frankia en culture, on a pu verifier que les filaments bactCriens foment des vCsicules par gonflement des extrCmitCs dans lesquelles l'enzyme nitrogknase est fomCe. L'examen microscopique des cultures fait ressortir que les vCsicules posZdent une enveloppe spCciallsCe constituCe d'un certain nombre de couches fines ou feuillets qui, en lumikre polariste, prCsentent de la birCfnngence et que la microscopie Clectronique, par dCcapage a froid, rCsout comedes feuillets multiples (12- 15) d'environ 35-40 A (1 A = 0,l nm) dlCpaisseur. Des comparaisons sont Ctablies entre la structure de I'enveloppe vtsiculaire de Frankia en culture et la couche laminee la plus For personal use only. interne, trks semblable, des hCtCrocystes fixateurs d'azote de la cyanobactkrie Anabaena. I1 est alors suggCrC que ces structures qui se ressemblent, bien que appartenant a deux organismes non reliCs, exercent des fonctions de protection comparables en limitant I'oxygkne dans les sites fixateurs d'azote libre. [Traduit par le journal] Introduction 1964; Lalonde and Knowles 1975a; Newcomb et al. One of the striking structural features of the symbiosis 1978). In freeze-etch preparations of root nodules of involving the actinomycete Frankia within the root Alnus, Lalonde and Devoe (1976) and Lalonde et al. nodules of all actinorhizal plants thus far studied is the (1976) showed that this space disappeared and that one presence of a polysaccharide encapsulation synthesized could account for all the layers continuously between by the host cells and laid down around every filament, actinomycete and host cytoplasm as membranes of the sporangium, and vesicle of the invasive organism bacterium, host cell, or encapsulation. (Lalonde and Knowles 1975a, 1975b; Newcomb et al. The enzyme nitrogenase when exposed to molecular 1978). The polysaccharide is presumed to be pectic in oxygen is labile; this general characteristic of nitrogen- nature (Lalonde and Knowles 1975b) and is synthesized ase observed in all in vitro preparations is equally true of and assembled by host cells in the accommodation of the the nitrogenase from Frankia (Benson et al. 1979). microbial associate from the outset of the infection Within the bacteroids of leguminous root nodules the (Callaham et al. 1979). nitrogenase is maintained at a low Po2 by structural In all transmission electron micrographs published of modifications of the nodule and by the presence of Can. J. Microbiol. Downloaded from www.nrcresearchpress.com by HARVARD UNIVERSITY HERBARIA on 04/04/12 nodule structure of the actinomycetes one observes leghaemoglobin which is produced by the host cells (cf. : clear zones between the actinomycete and the host Tjepkema 1979). Haemoglobinlike compounds have cytoplasm, an area believed to be an artefact of fixation been reported in actinorhizal root nodules (Davenport (Lalonde et al. 1976). This clear zone is particularly 1960) but these observations have not been confirmed by prominent around vesicles in nodules (Becking et al. others (cf. Bond 1974). Tjepkema (1979) showed that 0008-4 166/82/070749-09$01 .OO/O 01982 National Research Council of Canada/Conseil national de recherches du Canada 750 CAN. J. MICROBIOL. VOL. 28. 1982 molecular oxygen is freely diffusible to the nodule cells Glutaraldehyde - osmium tetroxide furation containing the actinomycetal endophyte filaments. The Filaments of CpIl bearing vesicles were harvested and polysaccharide capsule cannot be expected to provide a suspended in culture medium containing 2% glutaraldehyde barrier to oxygen diffusion. The nature of the protection and 2% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer, pH 6.8, of nitrogenase within the actinorhizal nodule from for 12 h at 4°C. Cultures were washed in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer and postfixed in 2% osmium tetroxide in the same oxygen destruction remains to be determined. buffer. Cultures were washed three times with water, dehy- Induction of vesicle formation occurs when a filamen- drated in a graded alcohol series, and embedded in Epon- tous culture of Frankia sp. CpIl is subcultured into a Araldite resin. defined medium lacking fixed nitrogen substrates and Glutaraldehyde - potassium permanganate (KMn04)fura- containing succinate and EDTA (Tjepkema et al. 1980). tion Concomitant with vesicle formation in vitro one can Filaments of CpIl were harvested and fixed in glutaralde- demonstrate the onset of acetylene-reducing activity hyde-paraformaldehyde as described above and then fixed which increases with age of culture paralleling the with 2% aqueous potassium permanganate for 12 h at 4°C increase in the number of vesicles formed. The activity followed by washing, dehydration, and embedding as of the enzyme nitrogenase formed within the vesicles is described above. Glutaraldehyde - periodic acid - thiocarbohydrazide relatively unaffected by ambient values in culture O2 furation and is sustained even up to approximately 40% O2in the Cultures were fixed in glutaraldehyde-paraformaldehyde as atmosphere (Tjepkema et al. 1980, 1981). The nitro- described above and washed three times with distilled water. genase activity of Frankia vesicles produced in vitro The cells were then treated for 30 min with 2% periodic acid at suggests that the vesicles themselves provide the mech- room temperature, washed, treated with 1% osmium tetroxide anism to protect the enzyme within the vesicle from at pH 6.8 in 0.05 M cacodylate buffer for 1 h at 23"C, washed denaturation by molecular oxygen. For these reasons the in water, treated with 0.2% thiocarbohydrazide in 20% acetic structure of the vesicle envelope has become of great acid for 30 min, washed with 20, 10, and 5% acetic acid and interest and was the focus of the study reported here. then water, treated 30 min with 1% osmium tetroxide in 0.05 M cacodylate buffer, pH 6.8, washed four times in Materials and methods distilled water, and dehydrated and embedded as described above. Light microscopy Cultures of Frankia sp. CpIl were maintained in liquid Freeze-etch preparations nutrient culture and induced to form nitrogen-fixing vesicles as Cultures of CpIl were harvested and resuspended in culture described by Tjepkema et al. (1981). Living or glutaralde- medium made up to 20% with glycerol for 1 h. Each culture was then pelleted and small bits of CpIl were mounted on gold For personal use only. hyde-fixed cultures were photographed using phase-contrast, Nomarski differential interference contrast, or polarizing specimen supports and plunged into Freon-22 at its freezing optics with a Reichert Zetopan photomicroscope. Measure- point. Frozen specimens were fractured, etched, shadowed ment of polarized light retardation by the vesicle was made with platinum-carbon, and replicated with carbon in a Balzers using a A130 Kohler compensator (Zeiss). freeze-etch apparatus. Specimens were etched for 30-60 s with the stage at - 100°C. Thin sections of CpIl vesicles from Electron microscopy culture and freeze-etch replicas of vesicles were photographed Tissues of root nodules of Comptoniaperegrina (L.) Coult. on a JEOL 100 CX electron microscope. were prepared for transmission electron microscopy as de- scribed by Newcomb et al. (1978). Results Fixation Observations on nodule cells: light microscopy Vesicles of CpIl produced in vitro were prepared for Glutaraldehyde fixation followed by postfixation transmission electron microscopy by several fixation tech- staining, plastic embedment, and sectioning for light niques in attempts to preserve the structure of the
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